15 Inspiring Quotes from “Seneca”

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1) “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”

- Seneca

2) “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

- Seneca

3) “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

- Seneca

4) “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

- Seneca

5) “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship,
is to understand and to be understood.”

- Seneca

6) “Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.”

- Seneca

7) "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

- Seneca

8) “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

- Seneca

9) "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. "

- Seneca

10) "Time heals what reason cannot."

- Seneca

11) "The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

- Seneca

12) "Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

- Seneca

13) "If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."

- Seneca

14) “It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.”

- Seneca

15) "As is a tale, so is life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

- Seneca

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There are 3 primary drivers of results in life:

1) Your luck (randomness).
2) Your strategy (choices).
3) Your actions (habits).

Only 2 of the 3 are under your control.

But if you master those 2, you can improve the odds that luck will work for you rather than against you.

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"It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude."

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• Don't try to become a writer. Start writing.

• Don't try to become a programmer. Start making something you need.

• Don't try to become an entrepreneur. Start fending for yourself.

Forget about the label. Just do stuff.

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Be “selectively ignorant.”

Ignore topics that drain your attention.

Unfollow people that drain your energy.

Abandon projects that drain your time.

Do not keep up with it all. The more selectively ignorant you become, the more broadly knowledgable you can be.

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"Would you still be interested in doing something,

If you couldn't tell anyone about it?"

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"You have to pick something big to work on, because it's hard to commit your life to something small."

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"If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place."

- Lao Tzu

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Grief is a nasty game of feeling the weakest you have ever felt and morphing it into the strongest person you will need to become.

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"You don’t need mentors, you need action."

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And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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"Spend your time doing only what you can uniquely do."

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"Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."

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"The larger the group, the worse the conversation."

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“Escape competition through authenticity: forget about the crowded roads; get on the empty ones. No one can compete with you on being you. Nobody can copy you.”

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Since a love for learning comes naturally to us, the fact that so many people hate learning is the defining mark of a broken school system.

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How you age is more of a lifestyle choice than just genetics.

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The primary goal of your business isn’t to generate revenue, but to improve your life.

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